When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town’s school board.
One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from “encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.”
Finding inspiration through Ada
Finding inspiration through Ada
There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I’ve been so moved by so many people’s that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies.
Kick-ass women in tech
Kick-ass women in tech
I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many “best”/”most influential” people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year.
Ada Lovelace Day — start drafting your posts!
Ada Lovelace Day — start drafting your posts!
In ninth-grade science class, we watched a documentary about the discovery of the double helix, and it left me blazing indignant with anger. James Watson and Francis Crick, the two men who won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, had stolen essential research from the offices of an x-ray crystallographer [...]
Recommended nonfiction reading
Recommended nonfiction reading
After watching The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evan’s egotistical documentary about how awesome Robert Evans is and how awesome it is being Robert Evans, with my boyfriend and a bottle of Perrier Jouet a few weeks ago, I decided to mention some of my favorite works of nonfiction, and why they are so awesome.
Leave Michelle’s arms alone!
Leave Michelle’s arms alone!
Anyone who has a problem with Mrs. O’s off-one-shoulder beaded white gown obviously doesn’t remember that Nancy Regan wore an almost identical dress at her husband’s first inauguration
Final Project
Final Project
Completed my final animation project on Friday. You can see it right here; just make sure to have the volume turned up on your computer. The animation was done in Maya, which is the same software that Pixar uses! I mixed the audio in Audacity, and did all of the post-production work in FinalCut Pro.
8 things that need to go away in 2009
8 things that need to go away in 2009
In the spirit of my recent “Things that I bought that I love” tribute post, and with a nod to Arianna Huffington’s “Bye-Bye 2008: Things I Want to Forget,” here’s a list of things which all sane and rational humans should resolve to avoid in this young year. Some are altruistic, some are practical, some tongue-in-cheek. But I’m deadly serious about them all.
rehabilitation of a role-model.
rehabilitation of a role-model.
No, Stephie, not Britney Spears. An article called Samantha Power Working On Obama’s State Department Transition Team came across my desktop last week, and makes me absurdly happy. I assume if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ve figured out that I’m a bit of a [...]
Too fat to be a rock star?
Too fat to be a rock star?
The Dresden Dolls have been sort of on the fringes of my life for a good seven or eight years. And I’ve developed a sort of tacit hometown loyalty. So even though I’m not the huge fan that so many people see the potential for me to be, I was pretty sickened when this news item came across feministing.com today.
End-Game.
End-Game.
So, this semester I’m learning Maya—it’s the same 3-D animation software that Pixar uses. I felt as though I’d be naturally good at it, because I’m an artist, sculptor, computer whiz. But it’s actually been quite a challenge. The program is so challenging, in fact, that we’ve already begun working on final projects—which aren’t due until after my birthday in January.
Why I cannot respect a Republican woman
Why I cannot respect a Republican woman
It is fundamentally unconscionable to me that any woman could ever even consider voting for a McCain/Palin ticket this November. If you are a woman, if you have daughters, you owe it to them and to yourself to vote for Obama this year. If you’re considering voting Republican because you [...]
Girl in exile
Girl in exile
Male protagonists, when alienated or alienating, are righteous. Are pure, and noble, and the world is unworthy of them. Flight is their only hope and salvation. Female protagonists who challenge societal norms must be destroyed by society.
looking for something to read?
looking for something to read?
Here’s a good place to start: Arts & Letters Daily. Each day, two or three new articles appear on the top of each column. If you read nothing else, ever, you will be a well up-to-speed news- and culturewise only reading this once a day.
